Synodic month length 29.33 days

Length of current 1080 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 48 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2087. It is 4 minutes shorter than next lunation 1081 length.

Lunation length shorter than mean

Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 56 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 13 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.

Lunar orbit position on 30 May 2087 Friday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠3.2°

This New Moon true anomaly is ∠3.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠19°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).

Moon in perigee

Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 22:29, this is 15 days after last apogee on 15 May 2087 at 19:24 in ♎ Libra. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 12 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 12 June 2087 at 06:07 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 359 346 km

This perigee Moon is 359 346 km(223 287 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 162 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 010 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon before descending node

13 days after its ascending node on 17 May 2087 at 11:58 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 31 May 2087 at 00:23 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

Moon before northern standstill

11 days after previous South standstill on 19 May 2087 at 11:07 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-20.798°. Next 2 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠20.809° in the next northern standstill on 1 June 2087 at 14:09 in ♊ Gemini.